Wikipedia:WikiProject Oklahoma State Highways
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WikiProject Oklahoma State Highways is here to provide a set of standardized, well-written, and well-sourced articles on all state highways in Oklahoma (except lettered spurs).
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[edit] Relationships
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[edit] Participants
See Wikipedia:WikiProject U.S. Roads/Participants to join.
[edit] Structure
All articles are to be named Oklahoma State Highway X. Please see WP:SRNC and Wikipedia:Naming conventions/Numbered highways for discussion on this topic.
[edit] Infobox
Place the infobox at the very top of the page. (See below for information on how it works).
[edit] Lead section
The lead section should begin by stating the highway's name (in bold, per the Manual of Style) and the commonly accepted abbreviations (OK-x and SH-x, and any other names that are used). State that the highway is maintained by the U.S. state of Oklahoma. Give the length, in miles and kilometers. If the highway is very long, give a very general description of the route (terminii, part of state it runs through).
[edit] Route description
Include a description of the route here. Note routes the article highway intersects, towns it passes through, concurrencies, etc. If possible, upload and insert pictures.
On very long highways, split this up with subheadings.
[edit] History
If possible, write a section on the highway's history. When was the highway commissioned? Include any extensions, truncations, and/or major reroutes.
[edit] Miscellanea
Include anything interesting about the highway here, such as memorial (and other name) signage, historical notes, events that happened on the highway, etc. Several notes pertaining to the same subject should get a section (with a heading) instead.
[edit] Spurs
Create a bulleted list of lengths and brief route desciptions of lettered spurs here. Lettered spurs should redirect to the parent route. (Exceptions are State Highway 17A, 40A, and 251A, which are both orphaned. Spurs off of U.S. Highways should redirect to Oklahoma State Highway spurs from U.S. Highways unless you have a lot to say about them - e.g. State Highway 77H.)
[edit] Junction list/exit list
| County | Location | Mile | Roads intersected | Notes |
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| Grady | Chickasha | 0.0 | .svg/20px-I-44_(OK).svg.png){kind=small} I-44/H.E. Bailey Turnpike |
Western terminus |
| McIntosh | Checotah | 238.9 |  US 69 |
Parclo interchange |
| Ottawa | Wyandotte | 569.3 |  SH 10 |
All highways need to include a junction list similar to the one above. This is best achieved through use of the {{jcttop}}, {{jctint}}, and {{jctbtm}} templates. Always use the "SH x" abbreviation (note no hyphen).
If the highway is a freeway, include an ELG-compliant exit list here. When a route is mostly at-grade but has freeway sections, use the junction list format, but with ELG-standard text in the 'Roads intersected' column.
[edit] References
Cite all sources used.
[edit] External links
Include external links related to the highway.
[edit] Succession box
For U.S. and Interstate highways, create a succession box at the extreme bottom of the article. Use the {{ok browse}} template; see Interstate 40 for an example.
These were once used on all articles. This information is now included in the infobox on intrastate articles so this should be deleted on intrastate articles with the infobox.
[edit] Working examples of good structure
- State Highway 1 (Oklahoma)
- State Highway 51 (Oklahoma)
- State Highway 74 (Oklahoma) (how to handle different highways with the same number)
[edit] Goals
| Oklahoma road transport articles |
Importance | ||||||
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| Top | High | Mid | Low | Total | |||
| Quality | |||||||
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1 | 1 | |||||
 GA |
1 | 1 | 2 | ||||
| B | 9 | 26 | 35 | ||||
| Start | 1 | 17 | 34 | 52 | |||
| Stub | 13 | 80 | 2 | 95 | |||
| List | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | |||
| Assessed | 2 | 41 | 142 | 3 | 188 | ||
| Total | 2 | 41 | 142 | 3 | 188 | ||
- To have an article for all current routes.
- To bring all Oklahoma highway articles to at least B-Class.
- To have some Featured Articles. (Citations and lengths in miles and kilometers are very important!)
[edit] Resources
[edit] Checklists and assessment tools
[edit] Templates
[edit] Infoboxes
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| State Highway 3 |
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| Maintained by ODOT | |||||||||
| Length: | 616.5 mi (992 km) | ||||||||
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| West end: | Colorado state line (concurrent with   US 287/385) |
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| East end: |  AR-32, Arkansas state line |
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Our infobox, shown at right, is {{Infobox Oklahoma Highway}} and is fairly simple to use. These are the parameters:
- article_route - The highway number you're writing about.
- map - If a map at Image:Ok-x path.png exists, pass "yes", and it will be displayed. Otherwise, do not include.
- yrcom - The highway's "birth" and "death" dates. If the highway still exists, place the creation year and a dash (e.g. "1942-"). If unknown, do not include.
- length_mi - Length in miles. Kilometers are computed automatically.
- direction_a - west or south.
- direction_b - east or north.
- from - The western or southern terminus. Include a shield graphic of the highway it ends at (if any).
- to - The eastern or northern terminus.
- previous - The highway which has the next lowest number.
- previous_route - The type of the previous highway (I, US, or SH).
- next - The highway which has the next highest number.
- next_route - The type of the next highway (I, US, or SH).
If you are writing about a highway with two distinct sections, use {{Infobox Oklahoma Highway 2}}, which works in basically the same way.
[edit] Stub templates
To tag an article as an Oklahoma road stub, use {{Oklahoma-road-stub}}.
[edit] Other templates
- To create the junction list, use the {{jcttop}}, {{jctint}}, and {{jctbtm}} templates.
- To assist in referencing data from Eric Stuve's excellent OKHighways website, you can use {{okhighways}} - substing it is nasty, and it doesn't work well for suffixed and segmented routes, but for the mainline routes, it saves a lot of typing.
[edit] Project template
{{U.S. Roads WikiProject|state=OK}} (should be used on the talk pages of our articles, helps for article assessment)
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This article is within the scope of the U.S. Roads WikiProject, an attempt to build a comprehensive and detailed guide to roads in the United States. If you would like to participate, you can edit the article attached to this page, or visit the project page, where you can join the project and/or contribute to the discussion. |
| Topics |  Oklahoma State Highways |
| NA | This page is not an article and does not require a rating on the quality scale. |
[edit] User templates
It is strongly recommended that {{Project U.S. Roads West}} be placed on user (sub) pages.
[edit] Articles
This project's scope covers all state highways in Oklahoma. To clarify, this means roads maintained by ODOT or OTA. City, county, and privately-maintained roads are not within the scope of this project. (WikiProject U.S. Streets is more appropriate for city streets anyway.)
For convenience, here is a chart of all active state numbered highways. See /Topics for a complete listing of all articles that fall under this project.
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | |
| 10 | 11 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | ||
| 20 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | |
| 30 | 31 | 32 | 33 | 34 | 35 | 36 | 37 | 38 | 39 |
| 40A | 42 | 43 | 44 | 45 | 46 | 47 | 48 | 49 | |
| 50 | 51 | 52 | 53 | 54 | 55 | 56 | 58 | 59 | |
| 63 | 65 | 66 | 67 | ||||||
| 71 | 72 | 73 | 74 | 76 | 78 | 79 | |||
| 80 | 82 | 83 | 84 | 85 | 86 | 87 | 88 | 89 | |
| 91 | 92 | 93 | 94 | 95 | 96 | 97 | 98 | 99 | |
| 100 | 101 | 102 | 104 | 105 | 108 | 109 | |||
| 110 | 112 | 113 | 115 | 116 | 117 | ||||
| 120 | 123 | 125 | 127 | 128 | |||||
| 130 | 131 | 132 | 133 | (135) | 136 | 137 | |||
| 141 | 142 | 144 | 145 | 146 | 147 | 149 | |||
| 150 | 151 | 152 | 153 | 156 | |||||
| 162 | 164 | 165 | 166 | 167 | |||||
| 171 - 199 - 209 - 251A - 266 - 270 - 325 | |||||||||
Deleted (decommissioned) highways can be added as well, if enough information about them can be collected. Be especially sure to cite sources on these articles.
[edit] Categories
[edit] Lists
[edit] Images
There is a set of highway shield images in SVG format for use in articles. The other set is the new state-outline ("meat cleaver") shields introduced in 2006, which are stored under Oklahoma State Highway X. The routebox displays this shield. You can create new two-digit shields by copying them from Meat_cleavers.svg.
ODOT's goal for replacing all of the old circular shields was January 1, 2007. Therefore, the circle signs should no longer be used on current highways; use the state outline shield instead. However, circle signs should be used for articles on highways that were decommissioned before the new shield was introduced in 2006. Use the shield= override parameter to display a circle shield in the infobox.)
Use 20px for two-digit signs, and 25px for three-digit signs. Shields in the infobox (and other standalone places) are 100px.
Other old shields are available. The first shields (yellow diamonds) are to be stored under Oksh old1 X. The second shield (white squares) are to be stored under Oksh old2 X. We need someone to determine when the shield designs were adopted!
Of course, any photographs of Oklahoma state highways would be appreciated! They should be uploaded to Commons and filed under commons:Category:State highways in Oklahoma.
[edit] A note about abbreviations
There are two commonly accepted abbreviations for Oklahoma highways - SH- (as ODOT generally uses) and OK- (as is often used by roadgeeks). Either abbreviation will do, but both should be mentioned in the lead section (see Structure above) and one should be used exclusively throughout the rest of the article.
